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The reforms set out in each department’s SRP are designed to turn government on its head, taking power away from Whitehall and putting it into the hands of people and communities. Once these reforms are in place, people themselves will have the power to improve our country and our public services, through the mechanisms of local democratic accountability, competition, choice, and social action.

The reform plans set out in this document are consistent with and form part of the Department's contribution to the Spending Review. All departmental spending is subject to the Spending Review.

We have adopted a cautious view of the timescales for delivering all legislative measures due to the unpredictability of pressures on Parliamentary time.

Reform the civil service compensation scheme, change the model of departmental boards and oversee the Efficiency and Reform Group

2. Quango Reduction

Abolish/bring into departments the majority of quangos and enforce new standards for the remaining

3. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Strategy

Reduce the cost structure of ICT in central government, while supporting technologies which increase citizen involvement, and our agendas of transparency and localisation

4. Driving efficiency in Government Operations

Improve the efficiency of government operations by driving central management of core functions, including property, communications, procurement and project management

5. Transparency

Drive the agenda towards transparency in government. Facilitate the immediate release of current data sets and introduce blanket use of open data standards

6. Support the building of the Big Society

Encourage more Social Action and strengthen the voluntary sector through a programme to make it easier to run a voluntary sector organisation, get more resources into the sector and make it easier for the sector to work with the State

Publish details of senior Civil Servants (including quangos) with salaries more than £150,000

Require public bodies to publish online the job titles of every member of staff and the salaries and expenses of senior officials paid more than the lowest salary permissible in Pay Band 1 of the Senior Civil Service pay scale, and organograms that include all positions in those bodies

Require anyone paid more than the Prime Minister in the centrally funded public sector to have their salary signed off by the Treasury

Work with the Leader of the House of Commons to strengthen the powers of Select Committees to scrutinise major public appointments

Introduce new protections for whistleblowers in the public sector

5.5 Work with DECC to introduce transparency in energy use by government headquarter buildings

Mandate release of data and publish online

5.6 Work with CLG to ensure that transparency principles are applied at the local level

Require all councils to publish meeting minutes, and local service & performance data

Require all councils to publish items of spending above £500, and publish contracts and tender documents in full

Support the building of the Big Society encourage more Social Action .Make it easier to run a charity, social enterprise or voluntary organisation, by getting more resources into the sector and making it easier for sector organisations to work with the State. Ensure that implications for the disadvantaged are reflected in policy development

6.3 Make it easier for sector organisations to work with the State (2/2)

Support the creation of mutuals, co-operatives, charities and social enterprises to have a greater involvement in public services by giving public sector workers a new right to form employee-owned co-operatives

6.4 Develop a social norms agenda

Explore how to make regular volunteering an element of civil service staff appraisals; identify and publish data to give greater detail of Government support for social action

Break down barriers to social action and volunteering

6.5 Build the Big Society by encouraging volunteering and involvement in social action

Launch a national day to celebrate social action

Train a new generation of community organisers

6.6 Begin development of a National Citizens Service

Undertake preparatory work for pilots, identifying appropriate Local Authorities

Support the building of the Big Society encourage more Social Action. Make it easier to run a charity, social enterprise or voluntary organisation, by getting more resources into the sector and making it easier for sector organisations to work with the State. Ensure that implications for the disadvantaged are reflected in policy development

The Government believes that we need to throw open the doors of public bodies, to enable the public to hold politicians and public bodies to account. We also recognise that this will help to deliver better value for money in public spending, and help us achieve our aim of cutting the record deficit. Setting government data free will bring significant economic benefits by enabling businesses and non-profit organisations to build innovative applications and websites.

Included in key priorities of the SRP:

• We will require public bodies to publish online the job titles of every member of staff and the salaries and expenses of senior officials paid more than the lowest salary permissible in Pay Band 1 of the Senior Civil Service pay scale, and organograms that include all positions in those bodies.

• We will require anyone paid more than the Prime Minister in the centrally funded public sector to have their salary signed off by the Treasury.

• We will regulate lobbying through introducing a statutory register of lobbyists and ensuring greater transparency.

• We will also pursue a detailed agreement on limiting donations and reforming party funding in order to remove big money from politics.

• We will strengthen the powers of Select Committees to scrutinise major public appointments.

• We will introduce new protections for whistleblowers in the public sector.

• We will take steps to open up government procurement and reduce costs; and we will publish government ICT contracts online.

• We will create a level playing field for opensource software and will enable large ICT projects to be split into smaller components.

• We will require full, online disclosure of all central government spending and contracts over £25,000.

• We will create a new ‘right to data’ so that government-held datasets can be requested and used by the public, and then published on a regular basis.

• We will require all councils to publish meeting minutes and local service and performance data.

• We will require all councils to publish items of spending above £500, and to publish contracts and tender documents in full.

We will ensure that all data published by public bodies is published in an open and standardised format, so that it can be used easily and with minimal cost by third parties.

The Government believes that the innovation and enthusiasm of civil society is essential in tackling the social, economic and political challenges that the UK faces today. We will take action to support and encourage social responsibility, volunteering and philanthropy, and make it easier for people to come together to improve their communities and help one another.

We will support the creation and expansion of mutuals, co-operatives, charities and social enterprises, and enable these groups to have much greater involvement in the running of public services. We will give public sector workers a new right to form employee-owned co-operatives and bid to take over the services they deliver. This will empower millions of public sector workers to become their own boss and help them to deliver better services.

We will train a new generation of community organisers and support the creation of neighbourhood groups across the UK, especially in the most deprived areas.

We will take a range of measures to encourage charitable giving and philanthropy.

We will introduce National Citizen Service. The initial flagship project will provide a programme for 16 year olds to give them a chance to develop the skills needed to be active and responsible citizens, mix with people from different backgrounds, and start getting involved in their communities.

We will use funds from dormant bank accounts to establish a ‘Big Society Bank’, which will provide new finance for neighbourhood groups, charities, social enterprises and other non-governmental bodies.

We will take a range of measures to encourage volunteering and involvement in social action, including launching a national day to celebrate and encourage social action, and make regular community service an element of civil service staff appraisals.